{"id":7147,"date":"2021-03-26T07:21:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T11:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earlhamcollege.wpengine.com\/?page_id=7147"},"modified":"2022-12-12T13:50:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T18:50:24","slug":"general-education-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/policies-handbooks\/general-education-program\/","title":{"rendered":"General Education Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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General Education Program<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Introduction<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As a liberal arts college, Earlham offers more than 44 disciplinary and interdisciplinary majors and minors in which students cultivate deep and specific knowledge and experience. Equally important, the College expects every student to develop broad, general skills and proficiencies across the whole spectrum of the curriculum: the Visual and Performing Arts, the Humanities, the Social Sciences and the Natural Sciences. In a world that is increasingly interconnected, diverse and complex, it does not suffice to be narrowly well educated. We must be able to grasp and make use of new and unfamiliar ideas and to make significant connections not only within traditional spheres of knowledge, but across different intellectual and experiential boundaries. Thus, Earlham aims at a general and deeply multidisciplinary education for all students who seek an Earlham degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlham’s exceptionally able and thoughtful faculty, at all levels, teach in the general education program. We understand that this teaching is central to the College’s mission, and we also understand that, in a broad sense, everything beyond a student’s major is part of general education at Earlham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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General Education Policies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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